Dramatic footage has emerged of a police officer in the Belarusian city of Vitebsk protecting a child as they are hit by a car. The video shows officer Sergei Batalko grab the child before the car collides with them on March 2. The officer suffered a bruised leg, but the child was unharmed, according to a statement from the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Belarus.

Bobbi Kristina Brown died from lobar pneumonia, according to an autopsy report released today. The report, released on what would have been Brown's 23rd birthday, said that the lobar pneumonia was due to her face being immersed “in water complicating mixed drug intoxication,” along with “Hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy,” which is brain damage caused by a lack of oxygen.

Wisconsin health officials are trying to find the source of a bacterial bloodstearm infection, linked to 18 deaths. A total of 44 cases are reported, mostly among elderly people and all with other health conditions.

Germany's government is facing a backlash for its open-door policy for refugees fleeing war in Syria. In some places there have been violent attacks on asylum centres. Many of them are happening in the eastern state of Saxony.Al Jazeera's Dominic Kane reports.

The United Nations has reported a rise in allegations of sex abuse against its staff. A new report catalogued 99 accusations of abuse in 2015. UN missions in Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ivory Coast and Mali accounted for the majority of those claims. Al Jazeera's Osama Bin Javaid reports.

An Indian student leader facing sedition charges has called for "freedom in India" in a rousing speech to students at Jawaharlal Nehru University, after being released on bail. Kanhaiya Kumar received a hero's welcome at the JNU campus in New Delhi on Thursday night and addressed a large gathering of students and faculty members, cautioning authorities from suppressing freedom of speech and the right to dissent. "The struggle is long. The more you try to suppress us, the higher we will rise ... we are not asking for freedom from India, but asking for freedom in India."